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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.8 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 17 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by burgconvert on 7/15/2022 & rated 87 points: It was fine. Typical napa chard. I was hoping for a more nuanced and integrated wine given this now has a decent amount of age on it for a white. I feel like it degraded since the last time I tried two years ago - especially on the nose, losing some nuance and redeeming character. Drink up, buy this house's cab instead (513 views) | | | Tasted by Rajagopalanator on 4/3/2021 & rated 89 points: Light, easy chard. Citrus without too much acidity, and very minimal oak and butter (a good thing!). More French than Napa in style. Drink now. (980 views) | | | Tasted by lpettet on 4/22/2020 & rated 93 points: Great wine. Just superb. ESP vs my last bottle. Buy. (1289 views) | | | Tasted by Mds319 on 3/25/2020 & rated 94 points: Lovely Chard! At first taste, delicious citrus notes with a little acid on the back end. But wine was served a little too cold at first. As it warmed and opened up a bit, delicious flavors of stone fruits and maybe a little Honeycrisp apple? This is one of our faves and the 2016 didn’t disappoint. (1200 views) | | | Tasted by VinoViking on 4/28/2019 & rated 87 points: Much better than past Chards from Palmaz. Medium body with nice citrus flavors, and smooth light finish. Great for happy hour, don't think it will add much for dinner. A good wine, but high price makes for low QPR. Drinking well now. (1631 views) | | | Tasted by lpettet on 2/23/2019 & rated 92 points: Great wine. Light on the oak. Crisp. Lingers. (1347 views) | | | Tasted by lpettet on 9/17/2018 & rated 88 points: Something was off w this bottle. Last one was better and I hope the next four will be better and like the first one. (1197 views) | | | Tasted by lpettet on 6/30/2018 & rated 92 points: Very nice. Expensive but has great taste. Not too oaky. Rech. Lingers. (975 views) | | | Tasted by WilF on 6/23/2018: Yum. (909 views) |
| Palmaz Vineyards Producer website
The Palmazes bought a forgotten stone winery, a fine old house badly in need of renovation, and acres of land that had once produced fine Napa wines. The little valley had been the site of Cedar Knoll Vineyard and Winery, founded in 1881 by Henry Hagen, one of Napa Valley's pioneer winemakers.
Henry Hagen produced wines that garnered many awards, including a silver medal at the Paris Exposition of 1889. During that era, Cedar Knoll was one of Napa's premier wineries. The vineyards survived the Wine Country’s phylloxera infestation in the 1890s, but Prohibition was fatal. The winery fell into disrepair and the vineyards lay fallow for nearly eighty years.
Today, the vineyards are burgeoning, the restored Hagen house is a family home again, and the winery has been reinvented.
acres of vineyards grow more than fourteen unique terroirs at three elevations — 400, 1200, and 1400 feet above sea level and are nurtured under the respectful tenets of sustainable agriculture. They thrive on the slopes of Mount George at the southern end of the Vaca Range. The foundation for it all is base rock laid down during the Pliocene volcanic age. Vineyard geography ranges from steep slopes with shallow nutrient-poor soils, which produce concentrated grapes, to stony colluvial deposits made up of cobbles, gravel, and sandy loam. Variations of soil type, sun exposure, and elevation produce a robust range of flavors and concentration to create a wine with balance and complexity.
The winery's 24 fermentation tanks accommodate the yields of individual blocks within the estate, vinifying each parcel’s grapes separately to preserve the unique characteristics intrinsic to the parcels. This provides a complete and pure palette for the winemaker’s art — tasting, appreciating, and blending individual lots to bring balance to the wine.
The vineyard is planted primarily with Cabernet Sauvignon, plus some small lots of Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, which are used as blend components for Palmaz wines. The vineyard is also planted with small lots of Chardonnay, Riesling, Muscat, and Malbec for limited production. The vines are hand pruned and trellised, with production carefully moderated to grow only the finest quality grapes.
Palmaz Vineyards' winemaking and aging takes place within the living rock of Mount George, in a flawlessly engineered maze of tunnels and lofty domes. The height of the wine cave is equivalent to an 18-storey building, providing the vertical range needed for true gravity-flow winemaking. Thus, the wine is never subjected to the violent agitation of pumping, which can change the wine’s intra-molecular structure. This gentle treatment allows the finest nuances of flavor to develop naturally—the result is a complex, elegant wine.
The fermentation dome is the world’s largest underground reinforced structure. It is 72’ in diameter and 54’ high.
Temperature stays constant at 60 degrees and humidity at 75%, the perfect atmosphere for aging wine.
The cave houses its own water treatment plant built to comply with strict conservation guidelines.
Fermentation tanks rotate on a custom-designed carousel.
For a truly unique wine tour and tasting, this winery represents the ultimate in technology-driven and focused delivery of Napa Valley's iconic wines. Appointments are necessary, but this is a must-see family operation.Chardonnay The Chardonnay GrapeUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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